Miami Marlins

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Miami Marlins
2024 Miami Marlins season
Established in 1993
Team logo Cap insignia
Major league affiliations
National League (1993–present) East Division (1993–present)
Current uniform
Retired numbers	42 (Retired by MLB)
Colors
Midnight black, Miami blue, Caliente red, Slate grey[1][2][3]
Name
Miami Marlins (2012–present) Florida Marlins (1993–2011)
Other nicknames
The Fish
Ballpark
LoanDepot Park (2012–present) Sun Life Stadium (1993–2011)
Major league titles
World Series titles (2)	1997 2003
NL Pennants (2)	1997 2003
East Division titles (0)	None
Wild card berths (4)	1997 2003 2020 2023
Front office
Principal owner(s)	Bruce Sherman
President	Caroline O'Connor (President of Business Operations)
President of baseball operations	Peter Bendix
General manager	Vacant
Manager	Skip Schumaker

The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team based in Miami. The Marlins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. The club's home ballpark is LoanDepot Park.

The franchise began play as an expansion team in the 1993 season as the Florida Marlins. The Marlins originally played home games at Joe Robbie Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). In 2012, the team moved to LoanDepot Park (then known as Marlins Park), their first exclusive home and the first to be designed as a baseball park.^[4][5] As part of an agreement with park owner Miami-Dade County to use the stadium, the franchise also changed their name to the Miami Marlins prior to the 2012 season.^[6]

With a record of 2,241–2,609 (.462), the Marlins have the lowest winning percentage and fewest postseason appearances (four) among active MLB franchises.^[7] Despite this, the Marlins won the World Series during their first two playoff runs in 1997 and 2003; just three players were on each World Series team in Jeff Conine, Luis Castillo, and Rick Helling (both Conine and Castillo are the only Marlins to play a thousand games with the team).^[8] All four of their playoff appearances came as wild card teams, making them one of two MLB franchises (along with the Colorado Rockies) to have never won a division title, as well as the only franchise to have never appeared in back-to-back postseasons. The Marlins were also the first team to win the World Series as a wild card. Also noteworthy is the fact the Marlins have no retired numbers, with the exception of Jackie Robinson's universally retired #42 (although #5 was originally retired for inaugural Marlins President Carl Barger, who collapsed and died at the 1992 winter meetings. The Marlins retired the number 5 in honor of Barger's favorite player, Joe DiMaggio, but the team would issue the number into circulation for the first time when they moved into their new stadium in 2012 and instead honored Barger with a plaque at their new park).